The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312420017ISBN-10:312420013UPC:9780312420017Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Earth Sciences, EuropeBook Topic:Meteorology & Climatology, Great BritainSize:8.55 x 5.56 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCJ0D2BBTW
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult a shy young Quaker to the dizzy heights of fame. The Invention of Clouds tells the extraordinary story of an amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, and his groundbreaking work to define what had hitherto been random and unknowable structures--clouds. In...Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312420017ISBN-10:312420013UPC:9780312420017Book Category:Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, Earth Sciences, EuropeBook Topic:Meteorology & Climatology, Great BritainSize:8.55 x 5.56 x 0.71 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCJ0D2BBTW
Richard Hamblyn was born in 1965 and is a graduate of the universities of Essex and Cambridge, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on the early history of geology in Britain. He lives and works in London.
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